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Maryland HB1202 Could Expand Legal Midwifery Options

by Elaine March 12, 2013 Health

Maryland lawmakers have before them the opportunity to increase access to midwives. All they need do is support HB1202 – the Certified Professional Midwives Pilot Program. Doing so would immediately create legal access to qualified providers who are ready to work in Maryland. It would also increase access to homebirth for families that choose this [...]

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Last Chance to Tell Arlington County School Board How to Solve Overcrowding!

by Elaine February 21, 2013 News

Several public schools in Arlington County are overcrowded – particularly in the north end of the County. Students spend their days in trailers, a.k.a. “relocatables” or “learning cottages”. Lunch rooms, gymnasiums, art rooms, and music rooms are all at capacity. (And yes, I realize as I write this we’re exceedingly lucky to have all these [...]

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Start Empathy: A Welcomed Educational Initiative

by Dawn Mooney February 21, 2013 News

Recently, Elaine shared her perspectives about a new educational initiative focused on helping cultivate empathy among children. We had the pleasure of attending a luncheon hosted by the folks behind Start Empathy, and the discussion that took place during those two hours stirred up great emotion for me as both a parent and an educator. The [...]

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DDOT Has Read My Mind! Praise for a New DC Highway

by Ellen September 18, 2012 Around Town

One of the great things about living in a large metropolitan area is that, from time to time, you get the chance to drive on a BRAND NEW ROAD! It’s all clean and smooth, and black and shiny (sort of), and there’s not even potholes on it yet. Recently, I got a chance to ride [...]

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Arlington School Transportation Woes: Let’s WALK!

by Elaine September 6, 2012 News

A few weeks ago, parents of students in Arlington Public Schools (APS) received a letter designating their child as a walker or eligible for bus service. There’s been quite a brouhaha over those letters – namely by parents at Glebe Elementary (my home school – which I’ve been told lost the most bus stops of [...]

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End-of-School-Year Fatigue: Just Let Them Play!

by Elaine May 31, 2012 News

I’ll admit it. When my hometown friends in Kansas were heading back to school last August, I couldn’t shout loud enough about how awesome Virginia – with its King’s Dominion Law forbidding school to start prior to Labor Day – was. There their kids were, trotting off to school in suffocating heat, while my kids were stretching [...]

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Space Shuttle Discovery Tours DC En Route to Air & Space Museum

by Leticia Barr April 18, 2012 News

As residents in the Nation’s Capital, we’re privy to a lot of wonderful opportunities that are history in the making including today’s journey of the Space Shuttle Discovery as she traveled from Florida to her final resting place at The National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center. Watching from my spot on [...]

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Maryland Bans Employers from Asking for Social Media Passwords

by Aimee April 16, 2012 News

When I was looking for a new job last summer, I Googled myself to see what potential employers would see if they Googled me. Quite frankly, I expected that a potential employer who liked my resume, or with whom I had an initial interview would Google me. If I was hiring someone, I’d do it. [...]

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Logic of Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) Kindergarten Lottery Questionable

by Elaine March 15, 2012 News

News hit area list servs a few days ago that Alexandria City Public Schools has a new way to deal with over-crowded neighborhood schools. Instead of figuring out a way to have more classes (using portable classrooms, like neighboring Arlington County does, for example), they’re planning on implementing a lottery for every Kindergarten student who registers to attend [...]

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Who’s the Snob?

by Sue Wagner March 1, 2012 News

Last weekend, Rick Santorum called President Barack Obama a snob for wanting every American to have the opportunity to go to college. For a little context here, Rick Santorum has an undergraduate degree from Penn State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a law degree from Dickinson School of Law. He’s the [...]

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